The true story prototype of white snake fortune telling _ What is the true story prototype of white snake fortune telling?

Does the story of the legend of the White Snake really have a historical prototype?

But fairy tales generally have story prototypes, such as The Journey to the West and The List of Gods. There are four legends in China, namely, Liang Zhu, Meng Jiangnv, Cowherd and Weaver Girl and Legend of White Snake. Everyone knows the original story background of the first two, but many people don't know its original story, because the latter two have always been associated with myths. In fact, the White Snake is a white slave in history, and Xu Xian is Xuanzang of Xi. You can consult the different historical materials for textual research. During the Xichun period in the Southern Song Dynasty, a young man named Xi Xuan Zan met a young woman named White-haired Girl. The two fell in love and became lovers. Xi's father is a general officer under Yue Fei. Because I don't like the humble position of Bai Maonu, I don't agree to the combination of the two and break up forcibly. But Xi Xuanzang is still infatuated with the white-haired girl. He is determined to find the white-haired girl. In order to stop him, his father claimed that the white-haired girl was a white snake in human form, and invited a famous local monk to "catch the demon".

In Hangzhou, there were also records of snake demons hurting people in ancient times. According to the Records of Jingci Temple in Hangzhou, there was a python near the temple in the Song Dynasty, which turned into a woman and often bewitched and harmed people. In the Southern Song Dynasty's Miscellaneous Poems, Chen also said that he had "heard of Leifeng basilisk".

In the Ming Dynasty, a writer named Feng Menglong sorted out the story of the white snake in "The Story of Warning" and wrote a short story "The Leifeng Tower of Yongzheng White Snake". The novel begins to personify the snake demon, but the theme is still that the snake essence harms people, which makes Xu Xuan (later Xu Xian) suffer several times. It still emphasizes that the snake demon cannot live together and is lewd, and the monk Fahai is still a positive figure.

From these stories, we can see that the white snake is not a love story at all, let alone praise the white snake's loyalty to love. It's an exorcism story, and it's a story that the client never believes in Buddhism.